Two weeks ago, Bjarne and I and lots of ISO committee members had a blast at the code::dive C++ conference held on November 25, just two days after the end of the Wrocław ISO C++ meeting. I really think that this was a turning point year, because we’ve been talking about safety for a decade, the Core Guidelines are a decade old, we’ve been talking about reflection for 20 years in the C++ committee — but this is the year that it’s starting to get real. Our language and our community continues to grow, and it’s great to see us addressing the problems we most need to address, so we have an answer for safety, we have an answer for simpler build systems and reducing the number of side languages to make C++ work in practice.